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Winning numbers for largest Powerball jackpot are ...
CNN - The winning numbers for the largest multistate Powerball jackpot are: 22, 10,13,14, 52 and the Powerball number is 11. Saturday's jackpot is a record $600 million. It marks the largest in Powerball history, surpassing a $587.6 million jackpot split by winners in Arizona and Missouri in November. The jackpot has a cash value of $376.9 million. The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. ...
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Milwaukee police investigate 2 northwest side shootings
Milwaukee police were investigating two shootings that happened about two miles apart on the city's northwest side Saturday morning. In the first, a 47-year-old man was shot while sitting with a friend in the 4700 block of N. 76th Street. Police said a black SUV pulled in front of the pair and a suspect shot the victim once before exiting the vehicle to demand the victim's cellphone. ...
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Charitys investment a prescription for profits for drug maker
What happens when a disease-fighting charity dives into venture capitalism? In the first case of its kind, the results include one of the planet's most expensive pills, huge sales projections for a drug company and windfalls for executives who sold stock in the glow of enthusiastic news releases about the drug. Kalydeco is a breakthrough drug designed from knowledge of the genetic roots ...
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Jeff Bianchi bullpen get job done in Brewers victory
MLB: Power rankings St. Louis – Jeff Bianchi made the most of a rare opportunity on Saturday night. Starting at second base in place of the slumping Rickie Weeks, Bianchi delivered a clutch two-out, two-run single to center in the top of the 10th inning to spark a 6-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. It was just the second start of the season for the ...
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Campaign aims to improve perceptions about public housing
A new national campaign aimed at improving the perceptions about public housing has been launched and features a Milwaukee resident as an example of someone who is succeeding. ...
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ABB increasing Wisconsin presence with Innovation Campus headquarters
For a company that operates in more than 100 countries, ABB Inc. keeps a low profile in Wisconsin. That may have ended in January, when ABB announced plans to develop a new regional headquarters at Innovation Campus, the new technology park being developed by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. ABB employs over 29,000 people in Canada, Mexico and the United States and over 145,000 people ...
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City axes bra ban at historic Milwaukee bar
(Fotolia) The owner of a Milwaukee bowling alley and bar who was recently told to remove hundreds of bras hanging from the ceiling due to it being a fire hazard has been allowed to put them back ...
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Powerball mania Jackpot hits $600 million
That's all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Mo., convenience store for a chance at Saturday's record $600 million multistate Powerball ...
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Powerball dazzles hopefuls in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE - Powerball was quite the show-stopper this weekend. Saturday night's drawing was expected at $600-million. Today's TMJ4's Keller Russell was out talking to hopefuls in Milwaukee. For some, it was their first time to buy a ticket. Just how much would it take for you to give up your job? Russell spoke with a financial adviser who says, for instance, if you make ...
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Drivers tell of traffic nightmares on I-94
MILWAUKEE - Drivers in both directions of I-94 in Milwaukee County were forced to inch along, as construction work completely shut down the highway at Rawson. Today's TMJ4's Todd Hicks spoke with some angry people, stuck in traffic, that according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation stretched at least three miles in the southbound lanes. Some people, like Jim Timmerman, ...
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Wedding day gesture remains a mystery after nearly 32 years
This is a story - part mystery and part mix-up - about three weddings, a cake and a fire. When one couple's reception hall burned down on the day of their wedding - Aug. 15, 1981 - the party was hastily moved to a different location, where another newly married couple gave them part of their wedding cake. But who was that generous couple? The Milwaukee Journal said in an article the next ...
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Only Thornton can put end to MPS superintendent rumors
Just for the fun of it, let's skip ahead and think about what would happen if Gregory Thornton departed from his job as superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools. Two years ago, I would have seen that as the opening to major upheaval in the way MPS is structured and led. I think it's still a possibility worth keeping an eye on - there are people, particularly in major positions in ...
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Republican lawmakers may try to resurrect bail bonding
Madison - Two years after lawmakers unsuccessfully tried to enlarge the state budget by creating a privately run bail bonds system in Wisconsin, the controversial idea could be returning. Last time, the bipartisan group of opponents included the state's judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, sheriffs and clerks of court - virtually the entire legal system. Gov. Scott Walker ultimately ...
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Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes
Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...
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Police have questions after West Allis woman dies
WEST ALLIS, Wis. - An apartment complex in the 74-hundred block of West Washington Street for people with mental health issues is the scene of a death investigation this weekend. Police aren't yet saying what happened to a 63 year old woman, discovered dead in the hallway outside her apartment Friday afternoon. Officers are now questioning one man, but have not said whether the two ...
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Up to 60 injured after car drives into Virginia parade
Hiker "Quinoa" talks about being given credit for saving the lives of Carson Balckburn, Dalton Thomason, and Faith Ritchie after he ran them and others off the road with a water gun during a festival parade in Damascus, Va., on Saturday. Just as the children ran off the street, a car came down the road and struck several ...
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Obama and Walker earn identical approval ratings in Wisconsin
No one would mistake Scott Walker and Barack Obama for political twins. Yet in their public standing in this polarized state, they’ve come to mirror each other in striking ways. We saw it in 2012 when the two weathered Wisconsin’s turmoil and tribal division by earning the very same share of the vote (53%) five months apart. And we’re seeing the pattern persist in the off ...
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Wis. Democratic Party adviser is leaving
Zielinski had been demoted in March to an adviser from his job as the party's spokesman. He had compared Republican Gov. Scott Walker to Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer on ...
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Guide to Milwaukee summer festivals
Fireworks light up the sky over Summerfest on opening day in 2012. The 2013 summer festival season kicks off Saturday with the Highland Games and ends with Indian Summer Festival on Sept. ...
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Wisconsin woman injured in motorcycle crash
A 21-year-old Wisconsin woman was injured in a motorcycle crash Saturday morning, May 18. Christin Fenter, of Eau Claire, was riding a motorcycle around a curve when it went into a ditch according to the Pierce County Sheriff's department. Fenter was ejected from the motorcycle which also hit trees. The incident occurred just before 11 a.m. near 330th Avenue on westbound U.S. 10 in Union ...
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Green Bay police investigating a homicide
Green Bay Press Gazette GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Green Bay police have ruled the death of a 49-year-old man a homicide. The department announced last week it was investigating a suspicious death at Daniel Kuehl's residence. Detective Capt. Todd Thomas tells the Green Bay Press-Gazette the slaying likely occurred within a week of Kuehl's body being found. Police aren't ...
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Arrest made in West Allis robberies
WEST ALLIS, Wis. - A 27 year old Chicago man's been arrested in connetion with three recent robberies in the Milwaukee-area. West Allis police took Henry Davis Junior into custody, after the Tri-City Bank inside Pick-N-Save at 6760 W. National Avenue was held up at gunpoint last week. In all three cases, police say a Silver Nissan was spotted leaving the scene. The other robberies ...
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Report Car drives into Va. parade crowd
The AP said it happened at about 2:30 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival. The event celebrates the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, ...
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Park East development kicks into high gear
More than a year after Kohl's Corp. dropped the idea of moving its headquarters to Milwaukee's Park East strip, a long-awaited marketing campaign for that moonscape-like area is about to be launched. Meanwhile, a June groundbreaking is set for a Park East apartment development after years of delays, while a nearby Milwaukee School of Engineering parking structure under construction is ...
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Man in police custody after body found in West Allis apartment building
Police said they have a man in custody after the body of a 63-year-old West Allis woman was found in the hallway of an apartment building Friday ...
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